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Noah Kagan Presents

8 Surprising Lessons I'm Learning as The CEO of a $100M Business

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A couple of months ago, I stepped back in as the CEO of AppSumo, a company I started 11 years ago.

It’s been 5 years since I was CEO, and the company has 50xed in size.

We’ve got close to 100 people working with us, and we’re making close to $100M this year.

I’ve been learning A LOT about leadership after coming back, and I want to share some of these lessons I’ve been learning with you guys.

Show notes: https://okdork.com/podcast/229

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Transcript

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and I immediately had like the strong resistance.

0:02.0

I was like, oohy!

0:03.8

That does not feel good to Uncle Noah.

0:05.5

And then I was like, I need to go solve it.

0:07.3

All right, y'all, I'm going to come back and tell you

0:08.8

what the mission vision is.

0:09.7

Two nights later, I was hanging up my buddy Ahmed Gupta,

0:12.3

and I was talking to Ahmed, and he's like well do you

0:14.4

have to do this all yourself and I was like what do you mean he's like well you have

0:17.3

all these smart people that have been hired and they're doing great at App Samoa why don't you actually

0:20.0

include them in the process I was like but I thought a leader was supposed to do everything and I have to do it all. He's like, no, not at all. I went back to the branding team and I actually productively were saying, hey, here's what I liked, here's what I didn't like can you guys help and they were like actually we

0:34.6

want to do this the why and where we're going is on you the how an execution let us do that and

0:39.8

you really should leverage people in your company and people outside of your company to really help make

0:43.6

great things happen.

0:44.6

What's up you beautiful bastards.

0:49.6

It's your boy California Kakes aka Rabbi Can't Lose, aka Noah Kagan, aka Daniel you, one of

0:59.0

Noah's best friends. He wanted me to do this intro for something new.

1:03.0

Hold up, let me hit this jewel and sip some wine real quick.

1:05.0

Sorry about that, y'all.

1:09.0

Noah's company today is almost going to do 100 million this year,

1:12.0

and has almost over 100 people.

1:14.6

I know because I used to work there.

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